Wolfgang Frey (born 14 August 1942 in

Rechberghausen Rechberghausen is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Geographical location The community lies in on the foothills of the central Swabian Jura and on the edge of the eastern Schurwald. The h ...

) is a German bryologist and

phytogeographer Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation W. Frey when citing a

botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the '' International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Intern ...

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Botanists with author abbreviations 1942 births 20th-century German botanists Living people People from Göppingen (district) {{Germany-botanist-stub